LONGFELLOW AS A MAN
Longfellow always amused himself, as do most public men, with the
confused and contradictory descriptions of his personal appearance: with
the Newport bookseller who exclaimed, "Why, you look more like a sea
captain than a poet!" and a printer who described him as "a hale,
portly, fine-looking man, nearly six feet in height, well proportioned,
with a tendency to fatness; brown hair and blue eyes, and bearing the
general appearance of a comfortable hotel-keeper." More graphic still,
and on the whole nearer to the facts, is this description by an English
military visitor who met him at a reception in Boston in 1850. I
happened upon the volume containing it amid a pile of literary lumber in
one of the great antiquarian bookstores of London:--
"He was rather under the middle size, but gracefully formed, and
extremely prepossessing in his general appearance. His hair was
light-colored, and tastefully disposed. Below a fine forehead gleamed
two of the most beautiful eyes I had ever beheld in any human head. One
seemed to gaze far into their azure depths. A very sweet smile, not at
all of the pensively-poetical character, lurked about the well-shaped
mouth, and altogether the expression of Henry Wordsworth [_sic_]
Longfellow's face was most winning. He was dressed very
fashionably--almost too much so; a blue frock coat of Parisian cut, a
handsome waistcoat, faultless pantaloons, and primrose-colored 'kids'
set off his compact figure, which was not a moment still; for like a
butterfly glancing from flower to flower, he was tripping from one lady
to another, admired and courted by all. He shook me cordially by the
hand, introduced me to his lady, invited me to his house, and then he
was off again like a humming bird."{106}
A later picture by another English observer is contained in Lord Ronald
Gower's "My Reminiscences." After a description of a visit to Craigie
House, in 1878, he says: "If asked to describe Longfellow's appearance,
I should compare him to the ideal representations of early Christian
saints and prophets. There is a kind of halo of goodness about him, a
benignity in his expression which one associates with St. John at Patmos
saying to his followers and brethren, 'Little children, love one
another!'... Longfellow has had the rare fortune of being thoroughly
appreciated in his own country and in other countries during his
lifetime; how different, probably, would have been the career of Byron,
of Keats, or of Shelley, had it been thus with them! It would be
presumptuous for me, and out of place, to do more here than allude to
the universal popularity of Longfellow's works wherever English is
spoken; I believe it is not an exaggeration to say that his works are
more popular than those of any other living poet. What child is there
who has not heard of 'Excelsior,' or of 'Evangeline,' of 'Miles
Standish,' or of 'Hiawatha'? What songs more popular than 'The Bridge,'
and 'I know a maiden fair to see'? Or who, after reading the 'Psalm of
Life,' or the 'Footsteps of Angels,' does not feel a little less
worldly, a little less of the earth, earthy? The world, indeed, owes a
deep debt of gratitude to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.... Bidding me note
the beauty of the autumnal tints that make America in the 'fall' look as
if rainbows were streaming out of the earth, Longfellow presented me
with a goodly sample of the red and golden leaves of the previous
autumn, which, although dry and faded, still glowed like gems; these
leaves I brought away with me, and they now form a garland round the
poet's portrait; a precious _souvenir_ of that morning passed at Craigie
House."{107}
Lord Ronald Gower then quotes the words used long since in regard to
Longfellow by Cardinal Wiseman,--words which find an appropriate place
here.
"'Our hemisphere,' said the Cardinal, 'cannot claim the honor of having
brought him forth, but he still belongs to us, for his works have become
as household words wherever the English language is spoken. And whether
we are charmed by his imagery, or soothed by his melodious
versification, or elevated by the moral teachings of his pure muse, or
follow with sympathetic hearts the wanderings of Evangeline, I am sure
that all who hear my voice will join with me in the tribute I desire to
pay to the genius of Longfellow.'"{108}
"We have but one life here on earth," wrote Longfellow in his diary; "we
must make that beautiful. And to do this, health and elasticity of mind
are needful, and whatever endangers or impedes these must be avoided."
It is not often that a man's scheme of life is so well fulfilled, or
when fulfilled is so well reflected in his face and bearing, tinged
always by the actual mark of the terrible ordeal through which he had
passed. When Sydney Dobell was asked to describe Tennyson, he replied,
"If he were pointed out to you as the man who had written the Iliad, you
would answer, 'I can well believe it.'" This never seemed to be quite
true of Tennyson, whose dark oriental look would rather have suggested
the authorship of the Arab legend of "Antar" or of the quatrains of Omar
Khayyám. But it was eminently true of the picturesqueness of Longfellow
in his later years, with that look of immovable serenity and of a
benignity which had learned to condone all human sins. In this respect
Turgenieff alone approached him, in real life, among the literary men I
have known, and there is a photograph of the Russian which is often
mistaken for that of the American.
Indeed, the beauty of his home life remained always visible. Living
constantly in the same old house with its storied associations,
surrounded by children and their friends, mingling with what remained of
his earlier friends,--with his younger brother, a most accomplished and
lovable person, forming one of his own family, and his younger sister
living near him in a house of her own,--he was also easily the first
citizen of the little University City. Giving readily his time and means
to all public interests, even those called political, his position was
curiously unlike that of the more wayward or detached poets. Later his
two married daughters built houses close by and bore children, and the
fields were full of their playmates, representing the exuberant life of
a new generation. He still kept his health, and as he walked to and fro
his very presence was a benediction. Some of his old friends had been
unfortunate in life and were only too willing to seek his door; and even
his literary enterprises, as for instance the "Poems of Places," were
mainly undertaken for their sakes, that they might have employment and
support.
It is a curious but indisputable fact that no house in Cambridge, even
in the tenfold larger university circle of to-day, presents such a
constant course of hospitable and refined social intercourse as existed
at Craigie House in the days of Longfellow. Whether it is that
professors are harder worked and more poorly paid, or only that there
happens to be no one so sought after by strangers and so able, through
favoring fortune, to receive them, is not clear. But the result is the
same. He had troops of friends; they loved to come to him and he to have
them come, and the comforts of creature refreshment were never wanting,
though perhaps in simpler guise than now. It needs but to turn the pages
of his memoirs as written by his brother to see that with the agreeable
moderation of French or Italian gentlemen, he joined their daintiness of
palate and their appreciation of choice vintages, and this at a time
when the physiological standard was less advanced than now, and a
judicious attention to the subject was for that reason better
appreciated. His friends from Boston and Brookline came so constantly
and so easily as to suggest a far greater facility of conveyance than
that of to-day, although the real facts were quite otherwise. One can
hardly wonder that the bard's muse became a little festive under
circumstances so very favorable. His earlier circle of friends known as
"the five of clubs" included Professor Felton, whom Dickens called "the
heartiest of Greek professors;" Charles Sumner; George S. Hillard,
Sumner's law partner; and Henry R. Cleveland, a retired teacher and
educational writer. Of these, Felton was a man of varied learning, as
was Sumner, an influence which made Felton jocose but sometimes dogged,
and Sumner eloquent, but occasionally tumid in style. Hillard was one of
those thoroughly accomplished men who fail of fame only for want of
concentration, and Cleveland was the first to advance ideas of school
training, now so well established that men forget their ever needing an
advocate. He died young, and Dr. Samuel G. Howe, a man of worldwide fame
as a philanthropist and trainer of the blind, was put in to fill the
vacancy. All these five men, being of literary pursuits, could scarcely
fail of occasionally praising one another, and were popularly known as
"the mutual admiration society;" indeed, there was a tradition that some
one had written above a review of Longfellow's "Evangeline" by Felton,
to be found at the Athenæum Library, the condensed indorsement, "Insured
at the Mutual." At a later period this club gave place, as clubs will,
to other organizations, such as the short-lived Atlantic Club and the
Saturday Club; and at their entertainments Longfellow was usually
present, as were also, in the course of time, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell,
Agassiz, Whittier, and many visitors from near and far. Hawthorne was
rarely seen on such occasions, and Thoreau never. On the other hand, the
club never included the more radical reformers, as Garrison, Phillips,
Bronson Alcott, Edmund Quincy, or Theodore Parker, and so did not call
out what Emerson christened "the soul of the soldiery of dissent."
It would be a mistake to assume that on these occasions Longfellow was a
recipient only. Of course Holmes and Lowell, the most naturally
talkative of the party, would usually have the lion's share of the
conversation; but Longfellow, with all his gentle modesty, had a quiet
wit of his own and was never wholly a silent partner. His saying of
Ruskin, for instance, that he had "grand passages of rhetoric, Iliads in
nutshells;" of some one else, that "Criticism is double edged. It
criticises him who receives and him who gives;" his description of the
contented Dutch tradesman "whose golden face, like the round and ruddy
physiognomy of the sun on the sign of a village tavern, seems to say
'Good entertainment here;'" of Venice, that "it is so visionary and
fairylike that one is almost afraid to set foot on the ground, lest he
should sink the city;" of authorship, that "it is a mystery to many
people that an author should reveal to the public secrets that he
shrinks from telling to his most intimate friends;" that "nothing is
more dangerous to an author than sudden success, because the patience of
genius is one of its most precious attributes;" that "he who carries his
bricks to the building of every one's house will never build one for
himself;"--these were all fresh, racy, and truthful, and would bear
recalling when many a brilliant stroke of wit had sparkled on the
surface and gone under. As a mere critic he grew more amiable and
tolerant as he grew older, as is the wont of literary men; and John
Dwight, then the recognized head of the musical brotherhood of Boston,
always maintained that Longfellow was its worst enemy by giving his warm
indorsement to the latest comer, whatever his disqualifications as to
style or skill.
Holmes said of him in a letter to Motley in 1873:--
"I find a singular charm in the society of Longfellow,--a soft voice, a
sweet and cheerful temper, a receptive rather than aggressive
intelligence, the agreeable flavor of scholarship without any pedantic
ways, and a perceptible soupçon of the humor, not enough to startle or
surprise or keep you under the strain of over-stimulation, which I am
apt to feel with very witty people."
And ten years later, writing to a friend and referring to his verses on
the death of Longfellow, printed in the "Atlantic Monthly," he said:
"But it is all too little, for his life was so exceptionally sweet and
musical that any voice of praise sounds almost like a discord after it."
Professor Rolfe has suggested that he unconsciously describes himself in
"The Golden Legend," where Walter the Minnesinger says of Prince
Henry:--
"His gracious presence upon earth
Was as a fire upon a hearth;
As pleasant songs, at morning sung,
The words that dropped from his sweet tongue
Strengthened our hearts; or, heard at night,
Made all our slumbers soft and light."
He also points out that this is the keynote of the dedication of "The
Seaside and the Fireside," the volume published in 1849.
"As one who, walking in the twilight gloom,
Hears round about him voices as it darkens,
And seeing not the forms from which they come,
Pauses from time to time, and turns and hearkens;
"So walking here in twilight, O my friends!
I hear your voices, softened by the distance,
And pause, and turn to listen, as each sends
His words of friendship, comfort, and assistance.
"Thanks for the sympathies that ye have shown!
Thanks for each kindly word, each silent token,
That teaches me, when seeming most alone,
Friends are around us, though no word be spoken."
In another age or country Longfellow would have been laurelled,
medalled, or ennobled; but he has had what his essentially republican
spirit doubtless preferred, the simple homage of a nation's heart. He
had his share of foreign honors; and these did not come from Oxford and
Cambridge only, since in 1873 he was chosen a member of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, and in 1877 of the Spanish Academy. At home he was
the honored member of every literary club or association to which he
cared to belong. In the half-rural city where he spent his maturer
life--that which he himself described in "Hyperion" as "this leafy
blossoming, and beautiful Cambridge"--he held a position of as
unquestioned honor and reverence as that of Goethe at Weimar or Jean
Paul at Baireuth. This was the more remarkable, as he rarely attended
public meetings, seldom volunteered counsel or action, and was not seen
very much in public. But his weight was always thrown on the right side;
he took an unfeigned interest in public matters, always faithful to the
traditions of his friend Sumner; and his purse was always easily opened
for all good works. On one occasion there was something like a collision
of opinion between him and the city government, when it was thought
necessary for the widening of Brattle Street to remove the "spreading
chestnut-tree" that once stood before the smithy of the village
blacksmith, Dexter Pratt. The poet earnestly expostulated; the tree
fell, nevertheless; but by one of those happy thoughts which sometimes
break the monotony of municipal annals, it was proposed to the city
fathers that the children of the public schools should be invited to
build out of its wood, by their small subscriptions, a great armchair
for the poet's study. The unexpected gift, from such a source, salved
the offence, but it brought with it a penalty to Mr. Longfellow's
household, for the kindly bard gave orders that no child who wished to
see the chair should be excluded; and the tramp of dirty little feet
through the hall was for many months the despair of housemaids.
Thenceforward his name was to these children a household word; and the
most charming feature of the festival held on the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Cambridge (December 28, 1880)
was the reception given by a thousand grammar-school children to the
gray and courteous old poet, who made then and there, almost for the
only time in his life, and contrary to all previous expectations, a
brief speech in reply.
On that occasion he thus spoke briefly, at the call of the mayor, who
presided, and who afterwards caused to be read by Mr. George Riddle, the
verses "From My Arm-Chair," which the poet had written for the children.
He spoke as follows:--
MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS,--I do not rise to make an address to you, but
to excuse myself from making one. I know the proverb says that he
who excuses himself accuses himself,--and I am willing on this
occasion to accuse myself, for I feel very much as I suppose some of
you do when you are suddenly called upon in your class room, and are
obliged to say that you are not prepared. I am glad to see your
faces and to hear your voices. I am glad to have this opportunity of
thanking you in prose, as I have already done in verse, for the
beautiful present you made me some two years ago. Perhaps some of
you have forgotten it, but I have not; and I am afraid,--yes, I am
afraid that fifty years hence, when you celebrate the three
hundredth anniversary of this occasion, this day and all that
belongs to it will have passed from your memory; for an English
philosopher has said that the ideas as well as children of our youth
often die before us, and our minds represent to us those tombs to
which we are approaching, where, though the brass and marble remain,
yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders
away.
Again, upon his seventy-fifth birthday, there were great rejoicings in
the Cambridge schools, as indeed in those of many other cities far and
wide.
Craigie House, his residence, has already been described. In this
stately old edifice dwelt the venerable poet, who was usually to be
found in his ample study, rich with the accumulations of literary
luxury. One might find him seated with Coleridge's inkstand before him,
perhaps answering one of the vast accumulations of letters from the
school children of Western cities--an enormous mass of correspondence,
which was a little while a delight, and then became a burden. Before him
was a carved bookcase containing a priceless literary treasure,--the
various editions of his works, and, which was far more valuable, the
successive manuscripts of each, carefully preserved and bound under his
direction, and often extending to three separate copies: the original
manuscript, the manuscript as revised for the printer, and the corrected
proofs. More than once his friends urged him to build a fireproof
building for these unique memorials, as Washington did for his own
papers elsewhere; but the calm and equable author used to reply, "If the
house burns, let its contents go also."
The wonder of Mr. Longfellow's later years was not so much that he kept
up his incessant literary activity as that he did it in the midst of the
constant interruptions involved in great personal popularity and fame.
He had received beneath his roof every notable person who had visited
Boston for half a century; he had met them all with the same affability,
and had consented, with equal graciousness, to be instructed by Emerson
and Sumner, or to be kindly patronized--as the story goes--by Oscar
Wilde. From that room had gone forth innumerable kind acts and good
deeds, and never a word of harshness. He retained to the last his
sympathy with young people, and with all liberal and progressive
measures. Indeed, almost his latest act of public duty was to sign a
petition to the Massachusetts legislature for the relief of the
disabilities still placed in that State upon the testimony of atheists.
Mr. Longfellow's general health remained tolerably good, in spite of
advancing years, until within about three months of his death. After
retiring to bed in apparent health one night, he found himself in the
morning so dizzy as to be unable to rise, and with a pain in the top of
his head. For a week he was unable to walk across the room on account of
dizziness, and although it gradually diminished, yet neither this nor
the pain in the head ever entirely disappeared, and there was great loss
of strength and appetite. He accepted the situation at once, retreated
to the security of his own room, refused all visitors outside of the
family, and had a printed form provided for the acknowledgment of
letters, leaving his daughters to answer them. During the last three
months of his life he probably did not write three dozen letters, and
though he saw some visitors, he refused many more. He might sometimes be
seen walking on his piazza, or even in the street before the house, but
he accepted no invitations, and confined himself mainly within doors.
His seventy-fifth birthday, February 27, was passed very quietly at
home, in spite of the many celebrations held elsewhere. On Sunday, March
19, he had a sudden attack of illness, not visibly connected with his
previous symptoms. It was evident that the end was near, and he finally
died of peritonitis on Friday afternoon, March 24, 1882.
It will perhaps be found, as time goes on, that the greatest service
rendered by Longfellow--beyond all personal awakening or stimulus
exerted on his readers--was that of being the first conspicuous
representative, in an eminently practical and hard-working community, of
the literary life. One of a circle of superior men, he was the only one
who stood for that life purely and supremely, and thus vindicated its
national importance. Among his predecessors, Irving had lived chiefly in
Europe, and Bryant in a newspaper office. Among his immediate friends,
Holmes stood for exact science, Lowell and Whittier for reform, Sumner
for statesmanship, Emerson for spiritual and mystic values; even the shy
Hawthorne for public functions at home and abroad. Here was a man whose
single word, sent forth from his quiet study, reached more hearts in
distant nations than any of these, and was speedily reproduced in the
far-off languages of the world. Considered merely as an antidote to
materialism, such a life was of incalculable value. Looking at him, the
reign of the purely materialistic, however much aided by organizing
genius, was plainly self-limited; the modest career of Longfellow
outshone it in the world's arena. Should that reign henceforth grow
never so potent, the best offset to its most arrogant claims will be
found, for years to come, in the memory of his name.
{106 _The Home Circle_, London, October, 1850, iii. 249.}
{107 _My Reminiscences_, by Lord Ronald Gower, American edition, ii.
227, 228.}
{108 _Ib._, American edition, ii. 228.}
APPENDIX
I
GENEALOGY
[From _Life_, etc., by Samuel Longfellow, iii. 421.]
The name of Longfellow is found in the records of Yorkshire, England, as
far back as 1486, and appears under the various spellings of Langfellay,
Langfellowe, Langfellow, and Longfellow. The first of the name is James
Langfellay, of Otley. In 1510 Sir Peter Langfellowe is vicar of
Calverley. In the neighboring towns of Ilkley, Guiseley, and Horsforth
lived many Longfellows, mostly yeomen: some of them well-to-do, others a
charge on the parish; some getting into the courts and fined for such
offences as "cutting green wode," or "greenhow," or "carrying away the
Lord's wood,"--wood from the yew-trees of the lord of the manor, to
which they thought they had a right for their bows. One of the name was
overseer of highways, and one was churchwarden in Ilkley.
It is well established, by tradition and by documents, that the poet's
ancestors were in Horsforth. In 1625 we find Edward Longfellow (perhaps
from Ilkley) purchasing "Upper House," in Horsforth; and in 1647 he
makes over his house and lands to his son William. This William was a
well-to-do clothier who lived in Upper House, and, besides, possessed
three other houses or cottages (being taxed for "4 hearths"), with
gardens, closes, crofts, etc. He had two sons, Nathan and William, and
four or five daughters. William was baptized at Guiseley (the parish
church of Horsforth), October 20, 1650.
The first of the name in America was this William, son of William of
Horsforth. He came over, a young man, to Newbury, Massachusetts, about
1676. Soon after, he married Anne Sewall, daughter of Henry Sewall, of
Newbury, and sister of Samuel Sewall, afterward the first chief justice
of Massachusetts. He received from his father-in-law a farm in the
parish of Byfield, on the Parker River.{109} He is spoken of as "well
educated, but a little wild," or, as another puts it, "not so much of a
Puritan as some." In 1690, as ensign of the Newbury company in the Essex
regiment, he joined the ill-fated expedition of Sir William Phipps
against Quebec, which on its return encountered a severe storm in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence. One of the ships was wrecked on the island of
Anticosti, and William Longfellow, with nine of his comrades, was
drowned. He left five children. The fourth of these, Stephen (1), left
to shift for himself, became a blacksmith. He married Abigail, daughter
of Rev. Edward Tompson, of Newbury, afterward of Marshfield. Their fifth
child, Stephen (2), born in 1723, being a bright boy, was sent to
Harvard College, where he took his first degree in 1742, and his second
in 1745. In this latter year (after having meanwhile taught a school in
York) he went to Portland in Maine (then Falmouth), to be the
schoolmaster of the town.{110}
He gained the respect of the community to such a degree that he was
called to fill important offices; being successively parish clerk, town
clerk, register of probate, and clerk of the courts. When Portland was
burned by Mowatt in 1775, his house having been destroyed, he removed to
Gorham, where he resided till his death, in 1790. It was said of him
that he was a man of piety, integrity, and honor, and that his favorite
reading was history and poetry. He had married Tabitha, daughter of
Samuel Bragdon, of York. Their eldest son, Stephen (3), was born in
1750, inheriting the name and the farm; and in 1773 he married Patience
Young, of York. He represented his town in the Massachusetts legislature
for eight years, and his county for several years after as senator. For
fourteen years (1797-1811) he was judge of the Court of Common Pleas,
and is remembered as a man of sterling qualities, great integrity, and
sound common-sense. His second child, Stephen (4), born in Gorham in
1776, graduated at Harvard College in 1798, studied law in Portland, and
in 1801 was admitted to the Cumberland Bar, at which he soon attained
and kept a distinguished position. In 1814, as a member of the
Federalist party, to whose principles he was strongly attached, he was
sent as a representative to the Massachusetts legislature. In 1822 he
was elected representative to Congress, which office he held for one
term. In 1828 he received the degree of LL. D. from Bowdoin College, of
which he was a Trustee for nineteen years. In 1834 he was elected
President of the Maine Historical Society. He died in 1849, highly
respected for his integrity, public spirit, hospitality, and generosity.
In 1804 he had married Zilpah, daughter of General Peleg Wadsworth, of
Portland. Of their eight children, Henry Wadsworth was the second. He
was named for his mother's brother, a gallant young lieutenant in the
Navy, who on the night of September 4, 1804, gave his life before
Tripoli in the war with Algiers. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on
the 27th February, 1807; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825; in 1829
was appointed Professor of Modern Languages in the same college; was
married in 1831 to Mary Storer Potter (daughter of Barrett Potter of
Portland), who died in 1835; in 1836 was appointed Professor of Modern
Languages and Belles-Lettres in Harvard College, which office he held
till 1854. He was again married in July, 1843, to Frances Elizabeth
Appleton, daughter of Nathan Appleton, of Boston. She died in 1861.
Their children were Charles Appleton, Ernest Wadsworth, Frances (who
died in infancy), Alice Mary, Edith, and Anne Allegra. He died on the
24th March, 1882.
{109 In 1680 Samuel Sewall wrote to his brother in England: "Brother
Longfellow's father W'm. lives at Horsforth, near Leeds. Tell him bro.
has a son William, a fine likely child, and a very good piece of land,
and greatly wants a little stock to manage it. And that father has paid
for him upwards of an hundred pounds to get him out of debt." In 1688
William Longfellow is entered upon the town records of Newbury as having
"two houses, six plough-lands, meadows," etc. The year before, he had
made a visit to his old home in Horsforth.}
{110 This was the letter from the minister of the town inviting him:--
FALMOUTH, November 15, 1744.
SIR,--We need a school-master. Mr. Plaisted advises of your being at
liberty. If you will undertake the service in this place, you may
depend upon our being generous and your being satisfied. I wish
you'd come as soon as possible, and doubt not but you'll find things
much to your content.
Your humble ser't,
THOS. SMITH.
P. S. I write in the name and with the power of the selectmen of the
town. If you can't serve us, pray advise us per first opportunity.
The salary for the first year was £200, in a depreciated currency.}
EDWARD LONGFELLOW, of Horsforth.
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William,
b. 1620;
d. 1704.
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Nathan, William, Mary. Lucy.
d. 1687. b. 1650; em.
to America; Isabella. Martha.
m. 10 Nov., 1676
to Anne Sewall;
d. 31 Oct., 1690.
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William. Stephen, Anne. Stephen (1), Elizabeth, Nathan.
d. in b. 22 Sept., 1685; m. Benj.
infancy. m. 13 Mar., 1713 to Woodman.
Abigail Tompson;
d. 17 Nov., 1764.
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William. Stephen (2), Samuel.
b. 7 Feb., 1723;
Ann. (H. C., 1742) Abigail.
(Portland, 1745);
Edward. m. 19 Oct., 1749 Elizabeth.
to Tabitha Bragdon;
Sarah. d. Gorham, 1 May, 1790. Nathan.
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Stephen (3), Samuel,
b. 3 Aug., 1750;
m. 13 Dec., 1773 Tabitha.
to Patience Young;
d. Gorham, 1824. Abigail.
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Tabitha, Stephen (4), Abigail, Ann.
m. Lothrop Lewis. b. 23 Mar., 1776; m. Saml.
(H. C., 1798) Stephenson. Catherine.
m. 1 Jan., 1804
to Zilpah Wadsworth; Samuel.
d. ----, Aug., 1849.
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Stephen (5), Henry W. Elizabeth. Alex. W. Ellen.
d. 1850. b. 27 Feb., 1807; Anne. Mary. Saml.
m. (1) 14 Sept., 1831
to Mary S. Potter;
(2) 13 July, 1843
to Frances E. Appleton;
d. 24 Mar., 1882.
II
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in French by the Editor.
[Editor.] Novelas Españolas. Portland. With an original preface in
Spanish.
1831.
Origin and Progress of the French Language. Article in North Am. Rev.,
32. 277. April.
1832.
Defence of Poetry. North Am. Rev., 34. 56. January.
History of the Italian Language and Dialects. North Am. Rev., 35. 283.
October.
Syllabus de la Grammaire Italienne. Written in French. Boston.
[Editor.] Cours de Langue Française. Boston.
[Editor.] Saggi de' Novellieri Italiani d'Ogni Secolo: Tratti da' più
celebri Scrittori, con brevi Notizie intorno alla Vita di ciascheduno.
Boston. With preface in Italian by the Editor.
Spanish Devotional and Moral Poetry. North Am. Rev., 34. 277. April.
1833.
Coplas de Don Jorge Manrique. A translation from the Spanish. Boston.
Spanish Language and Literature. North Am. Rev., 36. 316. April.
Old English Romances. North Am. Rev., 37. 374. October.
1835.
Outre-Mer; a Pilgrimage beyond the Sea. 2 vols. New York.
1837.
The Great Metropolis. North Am. Rev., 44. 461. April.
Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales. North Am. Rev., 45. 59. July.
Tegnér's Frithiofs Saga. North Am. Rev., 45. 149. July.
1838.
Anglo-Saxon Literature. North Am. Rev., 47. 90. July.
1839.
Hyperion; a Romance. 2 vols. New York.
Voices of the Night. Cambridge.
1840.
The French Language in England. North Am. Rev., 51. 285. October.
1841.
Ballads and other Poems. Cambridge.
1842.
Poems on Slavery. Cambridge.
1843.
The Spanish Student. A Play in Three Acts. Cambridge.
1845.
[Editor.] The Waif: a Collection of Poems. Cambridge. With Proem by the
Editor.
[Editor.] The Poets and Poetry of Europe. Philadelphia.
Poems. Illustrated. Philadelphia.
1846.
Poems. Popular Edition. New York.
The Belfry of Bruges, and other Poems. Boston.
[Editor.] The Estray: a Collection of Poems. Boston. With Proem by the
Editor.
1847.
Evangeline: a Tale of Acadie. Boston.
1849.
Kavanagh: a Tale. Boston.
1850.
The Seaside and the Fireside. Boston.
1851.
The Golden Legend. Boston.
1855.
The Song of Hiawatha. Boston.
1858.
The Courtship of Miles Standish. Boston.
1863.
Tales of a Wayside Inn. Boston.
1867.
Flower-de-Luce. Boston.
1868.
The New England Tragedies. Boston.
1867-70.
Dante's Divine Comedy. A Translation. Boston.
1871.
The Divine Tragedy. Boston.
1872.
Christus: a Mystery. Boston.
Three Books of Song. Boston.
1874.
Aftermath. Boston.
1875.
The Masque of Pandora, and other Poems. Boston.
1876-79.
[Editor.] Poems of Places. 31 vols. Boston.
1878.
Kéramos, and other Poems. Boston.
1880.
Ultima Thule. Boston.
1882.
In the Harbor. Boston.
1883.
Michael Angelo. Boston.
1886.
A Complete Edition of Mr. Longfellow's Poetical and Prose Works, in 11
volumes, with introductions and notes, was published by Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., Boston.
III
TRANSLATIONS OF MR. LONGFELLOW'S WORKS
The following catalogue of translations of Mr. Longfellow's works is
based, of course, upon that prepared by Mr. Samuel Longfellow for the
memoir of his brother. This is here, however, revised, corrected, and
much enlarged, partly by the addition of later versions and partly by
others gathered from European bibliographies and publishers' lists; this
work being aided by the learned guidance of Professor Wiener of Harvard
University. Even with this enlargement the list is doubtless quite
incomplete; so widely scattered are these translations among the
periodicals and even the schoolbooks of different nations, and so much
time and labor would be required to furnish an absolutely complete
exhibit.
GERMAN
_Longfellow's Gedichte._ Übersetzt von Carl Böttger. Dessau: 1856.
_Balladen und Lieder von H. W. Longfellow._ Deutsch von A. R. Nielo.
Münster: 1857.
_Longfellow's Gedichte._ Von Friedrich Marx. Hamburg und Leipzig: 1868.
_Longfellow's ältere und neuere Gedichte in Auswald._ Deutsch von Adolf
Laun. Oldenburg: 1879.
_Der Spanische Student._ Übersetzt Karl Böttger. Dessau: 1854.
_The Same._ Von Marie Hélène Le Maistre. Dresden: n. d.
_The Same._ Übersetzt von Häfeli. Leipzig: n. d.
_Evangeline._ Aus dem Englischen. Hamburg: 1857.
_The Same._ Aus dem Englischen. Von P. J. Belke. Leipzig: 1854.
_The Same._ Mit Anmerkungen von Dr. O. Dickmann. Hamburg: n. d.
_The Same._ Eine Erzählung aus Acadien. Von Eduard Nickles. Karlsruhe:
1862.
_The Same._ In deutscher Nachdichtung von P. Herlth. Bremen: 1870.
_The Same._ Übersetzt von Frank Siller. Milwaukee: 1879.
_The Same._ Übersetzt von Karl Knortz. Leipzig: n. d.
_Longfellow's Evangeline._ Deutsch von Heinrich Viehoff. Trier: 1869.
_Die Goldene Legende._ Deutsch von Karl Keck. Wien: 1859. Also Leipzig,
1860.
_The Same._ Übersetzt von Elise Freifrau von Hohenhausen. Leipzig: 1880.
_Das Lied von Hiawatha._ Deutsch von Adolph Böttger. Leipzig: 1856.
_The Same._ Übersetzt von A. und K. Leitz. Hannover: 1859.
_Der Sang von Hiawatha._ Übersetzt von Ferdinand Freiligrath. Stuttgart
und Augsburg: 1857.
_Hiawatha._ Übertragen von Hermann Simon. Leipzig: n. d.
_Der Sang von Hiawatha._ Übersetzt, eingeleitet und erklärt von Karl
Knortz. Jena: 1872.
_Miles Standish's Brautwerbung._ Aus dem Englischen von F. E.
Baumgarten. St. Louis: 1859.
_Die Brautwerbung des Miles Standish._ Übersetzt von Karl Knortz.
Leipzig: 18--.
_Miles Standish's Brautwerbung._ Übersetzt von F. Manefeld. 1867.
_Die Sage von König Olaf._ Übersetzt von Ernst Rauscher.
_The Same._ Übersetzt von W. Hertzberg.
_Gedichte von H. W. L._ Deutsch von Alexander Neidhardt. Darmstadt:
1856.
_Hyperion._ Deutsch von Adolph Böttger. Leipzig: 1856.
_Pandora._ Übersetzt von Isabella Schuchardt. Hamburg: 1878.
_Morituri Salutamus._ Übersetzt von Dr. Ernst Schmidt. Chicago: 1878.
_The Hanging of the Crane._ Das Kesselhängen. Übersetzt von G. A. Zündt:
n. d.
_The Same._ Einhängen des Kesselhakens, frei bearbeitet von Joh. Henry
Becker: n. d.
_Sämmtliche Poetische Werke von H. W. L._ Übersetzt von Hermann Simon.
Leipzig: n. d.
_Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn_ und ihre Quellen, etc. Varnhagen:
1884.
DUTCH
_Evangeline._ Een verhaal van Arcadie, d. S. J. van den Bergh en B. Ph.
de Kanter. Haarlem: 1856.
_Outre Mer en Kavanagh._ Haar het Engelisch, B. T. L. Weddik. Amsterdam:
1858.
_Het Lied van Hiawatha._ In het Nederduitsch overgebragt door L. S. P.
Meijboom. Amsterdam: 1862.
_Miles Standish._ Nagezongen door S. J. Van den Bergh. Haarlem: 1861.
_The Same._ Perpetua. Oorspronkelijk dichtstuck, en Miles Standish
naverteld; door C. S. A. van Scheltema. Amsterdam: 1859.
_Longfellow's Gedighten._ Nagezongen door S. J. Van den Bergh. Haarlem:
1861.
_An Anthology._ A. J. ten Brink, H. W. Longfellow. Bloemlezing en
waardeering. Beverw. 1872.
_J. J. L. ten Kate en A. Bechger's Longfellow._ Met een tal van
Longfellow's gedichten. Culemb. 1883.
_De Smid van het dorp._ Door Fiore della Neve. Amsterdam: 1884.
[Mr. Longfellow speaks in a letter, dated September 26, 1881, of having
"received from Holland translations in Dutch of Outre-Mer, Kavanagh and
Hyperion;" but I have found no other trace of such a translation of
Hyperion. T. W. H.]
SWEDISH
_Hyperion._ På Svenska, af J. W. Grönlund. 1853.
_Evangeline_: en saga om kärlek i Acadien. På Svenska, af Alb. Lysander.
1854.
_The Same._ Öfversatt af Hjalmar Edgren. Göteborg: 1875.
_The Same._ Öfversatt af Philip Svenson. Chicago: 1875.
_Hiawatha._ På Svenska af A. G. Vestberg. 1856.
_The Poets and Poetry of Europe._ Öfversättning [af A. G. Vestberg].
1859.
_Valda Dikter_ [selected poems]. Tolkade af Hjalmar Edgren. Göteb. 1892.
DANISH
_Evangeline._ Paa Norsk, ved H. C. Knutsen. Christiania: 1874.
_The Same._ (et Digt.) bearb. af B. S.
_Sangen om Hiawatha._ Oversat af G. Bern. Kjöbenhavn: 1860.
_Den Gyldne Legende_, ved Thor Lange. Kjöbenhavn: 1880; also 1891.
_Fire Digte._ [four poems]. Overs. fra Engelsk. 1891.
_Prosavaerker._ Paa Dansk ved E. M. Thorson.
FRENCH
_Evangeline_; suivie des Voix de la Nuit. Par le Chevalier de Chatelain.
Jersey, London, Paris, New York: 1856.
_The Same._ Conte d'Acadie. Traduit par Charles Brunel. Prose. Paris:
1864.
_The Same._ Par Léon Pamphile Le May. Québec: 1865. Also Quebec, 1870.
_The Same._ Adaptation [in prose] par A. Dubois, avec une notice sur
Longfellow. Limoges: 1889.
_La Légende Dorée_, et Poëmes sur l'Esclavage. Traduits par Paul Blier
et Edward Mac-Donnel. Prose. Paris et Valenciennes: 1854.
_Hiawatha._ Traduction avec notes par M. H. Gomont. Nancy, Paris: 1860.
_Drames et Poésies._ Traduits par X. Marmier. (The New England
Tragedies.) Paris: 1872.
_Hyperion et Kavanagh._ Traduit de l'Anglais, et précédé d'une Notice
sur l'Auteur. 2 vols. Paris et Bruxelles: 1860.
_The Psalm of Life, and other Poems._ Tr. by Lucien de la Rive in
_Essais de Traduction Poétique_. Paris: 1870.
ITALIAN
_Alcune Poesie di Enrico W. Longfellow._ Traduzione dall'Inglese di
Angelo Messedaglia. Padova: 1866. Also Torino, 1878.
_Lo Studente Spagnuolo._ Prima Versione Metrica di Alessandro Bazzini.
Milano: 1871.
_The Same._ Traduzione di Nazzareno Trovanelli. Firenze: 1876.
_Poesie sulla Schiavitù._ Tr. in Versi Italiani da Louisa Grace
Bartolini. Firenze: 1860. [Other poems by Longfellow translated by the
same lady were included in her volume entitled Baron Macaulay. Canti di
Roma Antica, 1869.]
_Evangelina._ Tradotta da Pietro Rotondi. Firenze: 1856.
_The Same._ Traduzione di Carlo Faccioli. Verona: 1873.
_La Leggenda d'Oro._ Tradotta da Ada Corbellini Martini. Parma: 1867.
_Il Canto d'Hiawatha._ Tr. da L. G. Bartolini. Frammenti. Firenze: 1867.
_Miles Standish._ Traduzione dall'Inglese di Caterino Frattini. Padova:
1868.
_Liriche e Novelle._ Tradotte da C. Faccioli. Firenze: 1890.
_Uccelletti di Passo._ [Birds of Passage.] Dall'Inglese di H. W.
Longfellow. Rovigo: 1875.
_Excelsior._ Traduzione dall'Inglese. A. Tebaldi.
PORTUGUESE
_El Rei Roberto de Sicilia._ Tr. by Dom Pedro II., Emperor of Brazil.
Autograph MS.
_Evangelina._ Traduzida por Franklin Doria. Rio de Janeiro: 1874.
_The Same. Poema de Henrique Longfellow._ Traduzido por Miguel Street de
Arriaga. Lisbon: n. d.
SPANISH
_Evangelina. Romance de la Acadia._ Traducido del Ingles por Carlos
Mórla Vicuña. Nueva York: 1871.
_The Same._ Traducción de D. Alvaro L. Núñez. Barcelona. Tipolitografía
del Comercio. 1895.
POLISH
_Ewangelina._ Przelozona na jezyk Polski przez. A. Ch. [A. Chodzko?]
Poznan. 1851.
_Zlota Legenda._ The Golden Legend. Tr. into Polish by F. Jezierski.
Warszawa: 1857.
_Ewangelina._ Tr. into Polish by Felix Jezierski. Warszawa: 1857.
_Duma o Hiawacie_ [The Song of Hiawatha.] Tr. into Polish by Felix
Jezierski. Warszawa: 1860.
_Excelsior_, z Longfellowa przelozyl. El ... y (in Pamietnik str.
87-88).
BOHEMIAN
_Písen o Hiavate._ Prelozil J. V. Sládek. 1882.
_Evangelína._ Povidka Akadská. Prelozil P. Sobotka. 1877.
HUNGARIAN
_Hiavata._ Forditotta Tamásfi Gy. 1885.
_Az Arany Legenda._ Forditotta Jánosi Gusztáv. 1886.
RUSSIAN
_Poem of Hiawatha._ Moscow, 1878.
_Excelsior_, and Other Poems. St. Petersburg: n. d.
OTHER LANGUAGES
_Hiawatha_, rendered into Latin, with abridgment. By Francis William
Newman. London: 1862.
_Excelsior._ Tr. into Hebrew by Henry Gersoni. n. d.
_A Psalm of Life._ In Marathi. By Mrs. H. I. Bruce. Satara: 1878.
_The Same._ In Chinese. By Jung Tagen. Written on a fan.
_The Same._ In Sanscrit. By Elihu Burritt and his pupils. MS.
_Judas Maccabæus_, a prose translation in Judea-German. Odessa, 1882.
[The above list does not include reprints of Longfellow in the English
language published in foreign countries; as, for instance, Evangeline
published in Sweden in the Little English Library; Poems and fragments
selected by Urda, published at Amsterdam, Holland, and various editions
of Hyperion and other works in German editions, as mentioned in the
introduction to this book.]
IV
A VISIT TO HIAWATHA'S PEOPLE
The following narrative of the reception given to the Longfellow family
by the Ojibway Indians was prepared by Miss Alice M. Longfellow for the
Riverside Literature Series, and is used by permission.
When the idea of writing an Indian poem began first to take form in Mr.
Longfellow's mind, he followed the adventures of Manabozho (a mythical
character, whose exploits figure largely in all Ojibway legends) and
gave his name to the poem; but feeling the need of some expression of
the finer and nobler side of the Indian nature, he blended the
supernatural deeds of the crafty sprite with the wise, noble spirit of
the Iroquois national hero, and formed the character of Hiawatha.
Early in the last century the scattered bands of the Ojibways who had
their home near Lake Superior and Lake Huron, with their principal
village at Garden River in Algoma, not far from Sault Ste. Marie, were
ruled over by Chief Shingwauk, a ruler of force and character. He held
the remnants of the tribe together, cherished their national pride, and
laid great stress on the importance of preserving the national legendary
history. He imbued his son Bukwujjinini with the same feeling, and
carefully instructed him in all the legendary lore of his people.
Bukwujjinini became thus well versed in these legends, and it was from
him that Mr. Schoolcraft, who had married an Indian woman, received
them, turning them into English and printing them in his great work on
the Indians.
The old chief was a fine specimen of the aboriginal red man, dignified,
wise, and thoughtful, and deeply beloved by his people. He selected his
nephew, George Kabaoosa--or Daguagonay--as his successor in continuing
the legendary history of his people, constantly repeating to him all he
had heard from his father, and this Kabaoosa is now engaged in writing
out all these legends to preserve them for posterity. In addition to his
knowledge of these tales from his uncle's lips, Kabaoosa had heard the
poem of "Hiawatha" read by his Sunday-school teacher in his youth.
In the winter of 1900 a band of Ojibway Indians was formed to illustrate
Indian life at the Sportsmen's Show in Boston. Among them was the old
chief Bukwujjinini, and one of the inducements he had to take the
journey was the hope of visiting the home of the writer who had cared
enough for the legends of his people to turn them into poetry. But this
could not be, for the old man, who was over ninety, fell ill, and died
on the very day the Indians were to set forth, and they took their
journey without their father, and with genuine sorrow in their hearts.
For some time the Canadian gentleman who arranged the expedition had
been cherishing the idea of training the Indians to perform scenes from
"Hiawatha" in the forest on the shores of the "big sea water." Kabaoosa
readily fell in with this scheme, and after the visit of the Indians to
Mr. Longfellow's home in Cambridge the plan rapidly matured, and a
formal invitation was sent to Mr. Longfellow's family to be present at
the representation as guests of the Indians. The invitation was written
on birch bark, in Ojibway, and was as follows:--
LADIES: We loved your father. The memory of our people will never
die as long as your father's song lives, and that will live forever.
Will you and your husbands and Miss Longfellow come and see us and
stay in our royal wigwams on an island in Hiawatha's playground, in
the land of the Ojibways? We want you to see us live over again the
life of Hiawatha in his own country.
KABAOOSA.
WABUNOSA.
BOSTON, _Onahbaunegises, The month of crusts on the snow._
The invitation was cordially accepted, and in August the party of
guests, twelve in all, left the train at Desbarats on the north shore of
Lake Huron; there they were met by the Indians in full costume, and in
sailboat and canoes they set forth for the little rocky island, which
had been prepared for them. There was a square stone lodge on the
highest part of the island, most picturesquely finished inside and out,
with the flag of England floating above it. Surrounding this were
several tepees of tanned hide and stained canvas, and nearer the shore
two little groups of tents, where two Indian families lived, who cooked
and served, sailed the boats, entertained their guests with songs,
dancing, and story-telling, doing all with a quiet dignity, ease of
manner, and genuine kindliness that removed every difficulty.
The play of "Hiawatha" was performed on a rocky, thickly wooded point
about two miles away. Near the shore a platform was built around a tall
pine-tree, and grouped around this were tepees and wigwams forming the
Indian village. Behind this the ground sloped gradually upward, forming
a natural amphitheatre.
As a prelude to the play a large pile of brushwood was lighted.
"And the smoke rose slowly, slowly,
As a signal to the Nations."
Down the hillsides rushed the braves in war-paint and feathers,--
"Wildly glaring at each other,
In their hearts the feuds of ages.
Then upon the ground the warriors
Threw their weapons and their war-gear,
Leaped into the rushing river,
Washed the war-paint from their faces,
And in silence all the warriors
Broke the red stone of the quarry,
Smoothed and formed it into Peace-Pipes."
Then appeared old Nokomis leading by the hand the youthful Hiawatha, and
taught him how to shoot the bow and arrow, while the warriors stood
around watching and applauding when he hit the mark.
The third scene was the journey of Hiawatha in his manhood after his
battle with Mudjekeewis, a picturesque figure striding through the woods
flecked with sunshine and shadow.
"Only once his pace he slackened,
Paused to purchase heads of arrows
Of the ancient arrow-maker."
The wigwam of the ancient arrow-maker was placed far from the rest in
the shade of the trees, to give an idea of distance. The arrow-maker
himself, a very old man, sat by the entrance, cutting arrowheads; his
daughter, a modest Indian maiden, stood beside him with downcast eyes,
while the stranger paused to talk with her father.
This scene was followed by the return of Hiawatha to the land of the
Dakotahs. Again the old man sat in the doorway, and by him was
Minnehaha, "plaiting mats of flags and rushes."
"Then uprose the Laughing Water,
Laid aside her mat unfinished,
Brought forth food, and set before them,
Gave them drink in bowls of bass wood."
She stood modestly on one side while Hiawatha urged his suit, and then
putting her hand in his, she followed him home through the forest.
Then came the wedding dances, full of life and spirit, the figures
moving always round and round in a circle, with a swaying motion, the
feet scarcely lifted from the ground. Under the pine-tree, tall and
erect, with head and eyes uplifted, stood the musician, chanting his
songs with a strange rhythmical cadence, and accompanying them on the
flat Indian drum.
The old Nokomis in one corner guarded with a war-club a group of maidens
who were dancing all the while, and the braves circling round slyly
stole one maiden after another, until Nokomis was left alone. Then
followed the caribou dance, the dancers with arms uplifted like horns,
knocking and striking one another; the bear dance, with its clumsy,
heavy motion; and the snake dance, where the dancers wound and twisted
in and out, round and round; and always the singer continued his
rhythmic chant.
Last came the gambling dance, the favorite with the actors. A mat of
rushes was placed on the ground, and on each side kneeled the
contestants. At the back stood the old singer, drumming and chanting
advice to the players. On each side were grouped the women watching the
game, their bodies swaying in time to the music, while the players grew
more and more excited, arms, heads, bodies all moving in perfect rhythm,
calling out and shouting as one by one pouches, knives, belts, etc.,
were passed to the winning side. One side hid a small metal counter
under one of two moccasins, while the other side tried to find it.
This game was interrupted by a sudden shout, and across the water was
seen approaching a canoe, and seated in it the missionary, "the black
robe chief, the prophet." On the shore he was graciously received by
Hiawatha, and led to a wigwam for refreshment and repose. Then he
addressed the attentive tribes in Ojibway,--
"Told his message to the people,
Told the purport of his mission."
Thereupon Hiawatha arose, greeting the missionary, took farewell of all
his people, and--
"On the clear and luminous water
Launched his birch canoe for sailing."
With hands uplifted he glided slowly out upon the lake, floating
steadily onward across the rippling water toward the setting sun.
"And the people from the margin
Watched him floating, rising, sinking,
Till the birch canoe seemed lifted
High into that sea of splendor.
And they said, 'Farewell, forever!'
Said, 'Farewell, O Hiawatha.'"
A beautiful ending to a most unique and interesting drama of the forest,
with the broad stretch of the lake in front, and the forest trees
closing in the scene.
After this followed an evening of songs and dancing, addresses of
welcome in Ojibway to the paleface strangers, and then the return of the
guests to the little island, quietly sailing in the starlight, while the
Indians sang their favorite hymns in the strange Ojibway tongue. The
next day being Sunday, all the Indians gathered on the island, where a
church was improvised, and a simple service was held in their native
tongue by the English clergyman from Garden River, who had impersonated
the missionary in the play.
After the service an old man arose, welcoming the strangers, because
their father had written in poetry the legends of his people, and with
pride produced a large silver medal given to his ancestors by King
George III. as a pledge that their rights should be respected. "And," he
said, "he told us that as long as the sun shone the Indians should be
happy, but I see the sun still shining, and I do not think Indians
always happy. But the medal he told us always to wear when with persons
of distinction;" and with great dignity the old man slipped the medal
with its broad blue ribbon around his neck, looking proud and happy.
The party of strangers made a visit to Garden River, the home of the
Indians for many generations, where they were most hospitably received;
the old chief's house was opened for them, and all his treasures
displayed.
A few days before the end of the visit, the Indians were very busy
building a small platform on the island, and decorating it with green
boughs, doing everything with much secrecy. After sunset, when the fire
was lighted on the rocks near by, the Indians assembled together, and
Kabaoosa as the spokesman announced that they wished to have the
pleasure of taking some of the party into the tribe as members. First
came the ladies, as their father had turned the Ojibway legends into
verse. They were led in turn before Kabaoosa, who took one of their
hands in his, and made a spirited discourse in Ojibway. Then striking
them three times on the shoulder, he called aloud the Indian name of
adoption, and all the bystanders repeated it together. Then the new
member of the tribe was led around the circle, and each Indian came
forward, grasping the stranger by the hand, and calling aloud the new
name. The names, which were valued names in the tribe, were all chosen
with care, and given as proofs of high regard; the men of the party were
honored as well as the women.
Odenewasenoquay, The first flash of the lightning [Miss Longfellow];
Osahgahgushkodawaquay, The lady of the open plains [Mrs. J. G. Thorp];
Daguagonay, The man whom people like to camp near [J. G. Thorp, Esq.];
and the names of the old chiefs Shingwauk, or Sagagewayosay [Richard
Henry Dana], and Bukwujjinini [Henry W. L. Dana].
The ceremonies were followed by much singing and dancing, of which the
Indians never tire, and the following day came the farewells,--farewells
to the broad, beautiful lake, the islands, the sweet fragrance of the
forest, and the kind and devoted hosts. With many regrets the party
turned their faces eastward, while the Indians accompanied their
farewells with a parting dance.
"And they said, 'Farewell forever!'
Said, 'Farewell, O Hiawatha.'"
ALICE M. LONGFELLOW.
CAMBRIDGE, April 6, 1901.
INDEX
"Advertiser, The Boston Daily," 41.
Agamenticus, 131.
Agassiz, Louis, 242, 285.
Alcott, A. Bronson, 271, 285.
Alden, Capt. John, 13, 146.
Alhambra, the, 50.
Allen, Capt., 46.
America, 50-52, 65, 71, 73, 90, 91, 95, 98, 101, 106, 112, 143, 161,
173, 215, 222, 248, 254-256, 259, 271, 272;
series of Annuals in, 72;
Longfellow addresses poets of, 77.
American Antiquarian Society, 118 note.
American Modern Language Association, 184.
American Monthly Magazine, the, 22.
Amherst College, 3.
Amsterdam, 108.
Andersen, Hans C., 193.
Andrews, William P., 234;
his paper "On the Translation of Faust," quoted, 233.
Angler's Song, the, 79.
Antwerp, 161.
Appleton, Frances E. _See_ Longfellow, Frances A.
Appleton, Nathan, 121, 171.
Appleton, Thomas G., 103, 219, 273.
Arfwedson, Mr. and Mrs., 93, 95.
Arnold, Mr., 70.
Arnold, Matthew, 6.
Atchafalaya, Lake, 195.
Athenæum Library, 285.
"Atlantic Monthly," the, cited, 233 note;
mentioned, 287.
Auersberg, Anton A., 161.
Austen, Mrs. Sarah, 269.
Austin, William, 64, 68 and note.
Auteuil, 46.
Bacon, Lord, 164.
Baireuth, 289.
Baltic Sea, 132.
Balzac, Honoré de, 177.
Bancroft, George, 71, 112;
his "History of the United States," mentioned, 143.
Bandmann, 241, 242.
Barbauld, Mrs. Anna Letitia, 62, 63.
Barlow, Joel, 23.
Barnard, Mr., 91.
Bartlett, Elizabeth. _See_ Wadsworth, Elizabeth B.
Bartlett family, the, 13.
Beattie, James, 62.
Beaugency, 48.
Becker, Rudolph Z., 161.
Belgium, 158, 170.
Bennett, Dr., 250.
Bennoch, Mr., 250.
Bentham, Mr., 91.
Berlin, 98.
Bernadotte, King, 94.
Berryer, Antoine Pierre, 47.
Besse, 239.
Bierstadt, Mr., 221.
Bigelow, John, his Life of Bryant, cited, 146 note.
"Blackwood's Magazine," 194.
Blair, Robert, 62.
Booth, John W., 241.
Boppard, 158, 170, 193.
Boston, 1, 4, 19, 23, 45, 67, 69, 72, 81, 86, 92, 100, 129, 132, 146,
148, 167, 168, 215, 242, 278, 284, 286, 292;
siege of, 116;
fugitive slave cases in, 206.
"Boston Herald," the, quoted, 184, 185.
Boston Public Library, 139 note, 167 note.
"Boston Quarterly Review," the, 125, 126 note.
Bosworth, Dr., 111.
Bowdler, Miss Hannah, 62.
Bowdoin, Mrs., gives fund to Bowdoin College, 45.
Bowdoin College, 17, 18, 23, 60, 61, 73;
Longfellow graduates from, 37;
becomes professor of modern languages at, 56;
Longfellow's salary at, 64.
Boxer (British brig), 14.
Bradbury, James W., 19;
in debate with Longfellow, 21.
Bradley, Dean, 249.
Brattle Street, or Tory Row, Cambridge, 117, 289.
Brattleboro, Vt., 161.
Brewster, Elder, 13.
British Museum, 5.
Brittany, 158.
Brock, Thomas, 249.
Brookline, Mass., 146, 284.
Brown, Charles Brockden, 132, 143.
Brown, John, 271.
Browning, Robert, 3, 6, 216, 218, 267;
compared with Longfellow, 270;
Longfellow a student of, 272, 273.
Brownson, Orestes A., 125.
Bruges, 161.
Brunswick, Me., 18, 64, 69, 82, 100, 163.
Bryant, William C., 8, 23, 60, 62, 64, 80, 112, 142, 265, 294;
his early poems compared with Longfellow's, 24-26;
moralizing of, 133, 134;
indifferent to Longfellow, 145;
his "Selections from the American Poets," mentioned, 145.
Bull, Ole, 214, 215.
Burns, Robert, 7, 8, 62, 188.
Bushnell, Rev. Horace, his letter to Longfellow about the "Divine
Tragedy," 245, 246.
Byron, Lord, 7, 9, 80, 280.
Cadenabbia, 223.
Cadmus (ship), 46.
Cambridge, Mass., 38, 40-42, 57, 75, 82, 84, 116-118, 121, 139, 154,
160, 169, 172, 179, 181, 182, 187, 192, 203, 205, 214, 215, 244, 272,
283, 289;
Longfellow's address to the children of, 55;
establishes himself in, 133;
Longfellow's speech at the anniversary of, 290, 291;
schools of, celebrate Longfellow's seventy-fifth birthday, 291.
"Cambridge Tribune," the, 117 note.
Cambridge, Eng., 220, 288.
Campbell, Thomas, 7, 62.
Canova, Anthony, 34.
Carey & Lea, 51.
Carey and Hart, 166.
Caribbean Sea, 266.
Carlisle, Eng., 219.
Carlyle, Thomas, 87, 90, 92, 259.
Carlyle, Mrs. Thomas, 90, 92.
Carlyles, the, 91.
Carpenter, Prof. George R., 127;
his "Longfellow," cited, 127 note, 166 note.
Carter, Mr. (Longfellow's teacher), 15, 17.
Carter, James G., 23.
Cervantes, Miguel de, 188.
Chamberlain Collection of Autographs, 139 note.
Channing, W. Ellery, 271.
Channing, Rev. William E., 11, 164.
Chantrey, Sir Francis, 90.
Charles River, 116, 118.
Chasles, Prof. Philarète, 195;
describes Longfellow, 196, 197.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 249.
Chelsea, Eng., 90.
Chivers, Dr. Thomas H., 145;
his "Eonchs of Ruby," mentioned, 143;
quoted, 144.
"Christian Examiner," the, 112, 113 note.
Christiana, 103.
"Christus," Longfellow begins, 236;
appeared, 242.
Civil War, the, 65.
Clark, Mr., 221.
Clemens, Samuel L., 198.
Cleveland, Henry R., 139, 284.
Cogswell, Joseph G., 71, 81, 82.
Coleridge, Samuel T., 262, 291;
his "Ancient Mariner," mentioned, 149.
Coleridge, Sara, 141.
Colman, Samuel, Longfellow's letter to, 139, 140.
Cologne, 8.
"Columbian Muse," the, a collection of poems, 23.
Como, Lake of, 223.
Concord, Mass., 133, 271.
Condry, Capt., 102.
Congress, U. S., 11, 13.
Connecticut, 90.
Conolly, Rev. H. L., 194, 195.
Constantinople, 3.
Cooper, James F., 80, 133.
Copenhagen, 93, 98, 100, 103, 105, 106.
Corby Castle, 219.
Corneille, Pierre, 65.
Cowley, Abraham, 249.
Cowper, William, 9, 15.
Craigenputtock, 90.
Craigie, Mrs., 147;
Longfellow's description of, 118-120.
Craigie, Andrew, 117, 118, 122.
Craigie House, 116-123, 272, 279, 281, 283, 291;
resembles Mt. Vernon in situation, 116;
various occupants of, 121;
Longfellow's letter about elms for, 122, 123.
Crébillon, Prosper J., 121.
"Cross of Snow," the, 211, 212.
Crowninshield, Clara, 83, 92, 95, 106, 110.
Croydon, Eng., 88.
Cushing, Miss, 61.
Cushman, Bezaleel, 17, 60.
Cutler, Mr., 140.
Cuyp, Albert, 142.
Dana, Richard H., 80, 133.
Dannemora, iron mines of, 97.
Dante, 214, 230, 234;
Longfellow translates, 207, 225.
Dartmouth College, 17.
Dawes, Rufus, 23.
Delphi, 31.
Dessau, "Spanish Student" performed in, 188.
Devereux Farm, Marblehead, 201.
Devonshire, 223.
"Dial," the, 125, 133, 145.
Dickens, Charles, 170, 284.
Diderot, Denis, 121.
Digby, Kenelm H., on Longfellow, 142.
Dobell, Sydney, 282.
Dryden, John, 9, 249.
Dublin, Ire., 167.
Duxbury, Mass., 12.
Dwight, John, 286.
Dwight, Rev. Timothy, 14, 23.
Eden Hall, 219.
Edgeworth, Miss Maria, 62.
Edinburgh, 8, 233.
"Edinburgh Review," the, 90.
Edrehi, Israel, 214.
Eichhorn, Prof., 46.
Eliot, Charles W., quoted, 184, 185.
Eliot, Samuel A., 182.
Elmwood, Cambridge, 168.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1, 6, 75, 164, 192, 196, 209, 259, 271, 285, 292,
294;
on "Kavanagh," 199;
his influence upon literature, 261, 262;
lectures in Cambridge, 272.
England, 7, 12, 33, 71, 72, 101, 167, 170, 195, 214, 223, 248, 252, 255,
257, 259, 260, 263;
Lake poets of, 9.
Enterprise (ship), 14.
Erskine, Mr., 95.
"Esther Wynne's Love Letters," mentioned, 122.
Europe, 1, 20, 45, 46, 52, 56, 60, 65, 71, 73, 78, 84, 86, 87, 101, 104,
120, 147, 160, 170, 190, 240, 241, 260, 271, 294.
Eustaphiève, Miss, 20.
"Evangeline," 194, 209, 210, 221, 258, 280, 285;
criticism on, 197;
publication of, 200.
Everett, Mrs. Alexander, 50.
Everett, Edward, 71, 118, 178.
"Every Other Saturday," 22 note, 36 note, 64 note.
Federalists, the, 11.
Fellows, Mrs., 17.
Felton, Prof. Cornelius C., 70, 112, 119, 139, 146, 156, 162, 168, 272,
284, 285;
aids Longfellow in his work, 173, 191.
Ferguson, Mr., 224.
Fields, James T., 224, 240, 241.
Fields, Mrs. James T., 191.
Florence, Italy, 223.
Florian, John P. C. de, 121.
"Footsteps of Angels," 112.
"Foreign Quarterly Review," the, mentioned, 168.
Forster, John, 168, 241.
France, 48, 55, 98, 155, 158, 252, 259.
Franklin, Benjamin, 6.
Frazer, Mr., 89.
Freiligrath, Ferdinand, 161, 193, 271;
on "Hiawatha," 209;
Longfellow writes about Dante translations to, 225, 226.
Freneau, Philip, 23.
"Frugal Housewife," the, 121.
Fuller, Margaret. _See_ Ossoli.
Fulton, Robert, 6.
Furness, Rev. W. H., 192.
Furness Abbey, 219.
Garrison, William L., 285;
his "Liberator," mentioned, 163, 166;
his Memoirs, cited, 167 note.
"Gazette, United States Literary," the, 23-26, 29 note, 41;
Longfellow contributes to, 27.
Georgia (State), 143.
Germany, 8, 50-52, 65, 71, 98, 125, 142, 156, 170, 199.
Gervinus, George G., 112.
Gladstone, William E., 221.
Gloucester, Mass., 264.
Goddard, William, 97.
Goethe, John Wolfgang von, 64, 92, 112, 234, 289;
his "Werther," mentioned, 120;
quoted, 233.
Goldsmith, Oliver, 50, 62.
Gongora, Luis de, 68.
Goodrich, Samuel G., 72;
his "Recollections of a Lifetime," mentioned, 74.
Gorges, Thomas, 131.
Gothenburg, 97, 101-103.
Göttingen, 52.
Gower, Sir Ronald, his "My Reminiscences" quoted, 279-281.
Graham, Mr., 158.
"Graham's Magazine," 164, 193.
Grant, General Ulysses S., 6.
Granville, Earl, 254;
offers Longfellow bust to the Dean, 250, 251.
Gray, J. C., 86.
Gray, Thomas, 62, 252.
Great Britain, 8.
Greece, 31, 33.
Green, Priscilla, 210.
Green, Samuel S., 118 note.
Greene, George W., 72, 74, 113, 148;
his "Life of Nathanael Greene," quoted, 53, 54;
Longfellow writes to, 57, 59, 67, 244.
Greenleaf, Mrs. Mary (Longfellow), 92.
Griffin, J., 69.
Griswold, Rufus W., his "Correspondence," cited, 143 note, 145 note, 168
note, 192 note.
Grosvenor, Edwin A., 3.
Gustavus III., 95, 96.
Gustavus IV., 96.
Habersham, Henry N. 119.
Haga, 95, 96.
Hagalund, 96.
Hall of Fame, the, 6, 248.
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, on "Skeleton in Armor," 141.
Hamburg, 106, 108.
Hampshire County, Eng., 12.
Harper and Brothers, 166.
Hartford, Conn., 245.
Hartford Convention, the, 11.
Harvard College or University, 11, 12, 46, 57, 156, 159, 184, 215;
library, 70;
invites Longfellow to become professor, 84, 85;
Longfellow elected to professorship of, 86;
Longfellow as an organizer in, 176;
early elective system in, 178, 179;
Longfellow's letters to President and Fellows of, 179, 180, 203-205;
their reply, 180-182;
Longfellow on elective system of, 182, 183.
Harvard College Papers, quoted, 84-87, 122, 123, 151-160, 179-183,
203-206.
Harvard Graduates' Magazine, 71 note.
Havre, 46, 158.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 7, 18, 44, 53, 64, 68, 133, 134, 193, 198, 209,
272, 285, 294;
his "Twice-Told Tales," mentioned, 72, 130;
on "Voices of the Night," 141;
married, 162;
suggests "Evangeline" to Longfellow, 194, 195;
on "Kavanagh," 199.
Healy, George P. A., 223.
Heard, Tom, 131.
Heath, Mr., "Book of Beauty," mentioned, 121.
Heidelberg, 111, 113, 128.
Herwegh, Georg, 161.
"Hiawatha," 187, 221, 258;
commenced, 208;
newspapers on, 209.
Hillard, George S., 168, 284.
Hilliard, Gray & Co., 69.
Hingham, Mass., 61.
Hiram, Me., 12.
Holm, Saxe, 122.
Holmes, Dr., Oliver Wendell, 1, 6, 57, 68, 146, 197, 273, 285, 294;
on "Evangeline," 194;
on Longfellow, 287.
"Home Circle," the, quoted, 279.
Homer, 5, 235.
Hook, Theodore, 10.
Horace, 19, 45.
Howe, Dr. Samuel G., 284.
Howe family, 214.
Howells, William D., 126, 198;
on "Kavanagh," 200.
Hudson River, 132, 248.
Hughes, Mr., 96.
Hugo, Victor, 3, 5.
Humphreys, David, 23.
Hunt, Helen, 122.
Huron, Lake, 209.
"Hyperion," 55, 112, 113, 127, 134, 137-139, 171, 175, 260, 288;
new literary style in, 70;
development of, 124;
criticism of, 125, 126;
turgid rhetoric of, 128.
India, 215.
Indians, 18, 79, 129, 132;
Longfellow's plea for, 21;
Longfellow plans poem about, 207, 208.
Innsbruck, 223.
Interlaken, 8.
Irving, Washington, 7, 18, 46, 68, 80, 89, 132, 133, 249;
Longfellow imitates, 26, 27;
speaks of Longfellow, 50;
his "Sketch Book" compared with Longfellow's "Outre-Mer," 69-71.
Italy, 33, 50, 55, 65, 96, 142, 223.
Jamaica Plain, Mass., 146.
James, G. P. R., 237.
Janin, Jules, 161.
Jefferson, Thomas, 6.
Jewett, Sarah O., 198.
Johnson, Eastman, 272.
Jones, J. A., 23.
Jones, Sir William, 43;
his Letters, 42.
Joubert, J., his "Pensées," quoted, 235.
Keats, John, 280.
Kemble, Mrs., 200.
Kent, Duke of, 118.
Khayyám, Omar, 282.
Kiel, 108.
Kingsley, Rev. Charles, 237.
"Knickerbocker," the, 140.
Körner, Charles Theodore, 64.
Kossuth, Louis, 173.
Lafayette, Marquis de, 52.
Lamartine, Alphonse M. L. de, 161.
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 207.
Lawton, William C., 234, 266;
his "The New England Poets," cited, 234 note, 265 note.
Lenau, Nicholas, 161.
Leopold, King of the Belgiums, 195.
Lincoln, Abraham, 6.
Liston, Sir Robert, 93.
Liszt, Abbé, 223.
Liverpool, Eng., 219.
Locke, John, 55.
Loire, the river, 49.
London, 2, 8, 87, 88, 91, 92, 103, 105, 106, 170, 209, 210, 221, 223,
241, 245, 278.
Longfellow, Alexander W., 83, 129.
Longfellow, Alice M., 117 note, 209.
Longfellow, Fanny, 201.
Longfellow, Frances A., Longfellow's engagement to, 171, 172;
appearance, 173;
assists her husband, 173;
her letter to Eliza Potter, 174, 175;
death, 211.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, birth of, 11;
youth, 14-18;
first poem on American subject, 17;
college life, 18-20;
shows American feeling in his Commencement oration, 21;
early writings, 22;
offers poems anonymously, 23;
selections appear in Miscellaneous Poems, 23;
his early poems compared with Bryant's, 24-26;
one of his poems attributed to Bryant, 27;
involuntary imitation of Bryant, 27;
contributes articles in Irving's style, 27;
letter to, from Jared Sparks, declining article, 29, 30;
his "Our Native Writers," 30-36;
graduates from Bowdoin, 37;
literature his definite purpose, 37;
writes to his father about his profession, 38-40, 41, 43;
father's reply, 40, 41;
first visit to Europe to prepare for Bowdoin professorship, 45;
writes to his mother, 46, 47;
enjoyment of France, 48-50;
begins his studies in Germany, 51, 52;
beginning of "Outre-Mer," 55;
"Hyperion," 55;
returns home, 56;
becomes professor of modern languages at Bowdoin College, 56;
prepares his own text-books, 57;
contributes to the "North American Review," 58;
publishes translations, 60;
marries Mary S. Potter, 60;
salary at Bowdoin, 64;
life at Brunswick, 65, 66;
writes to G. W. Greene, 67;
publishes sketches in New England Magazine, 67;
early sketches, 68;
comparison of the "Sketch Book" and "Outre-Mer," 69-71;
a puzzle about his writings, 72-74;
his "Defence of Poetry," 75-80;
project of taking the Round Hill School, 81, 82;
position in regard to temperance, 83;
his wife's letter about "Outre-Mer," 83;
letter inviting him to become a professor at Harvard, 84, 85;
his reply, 85-87;
his first book, 87;
second visit to Europe, 87-106;
letter to his mother, 97, 98;
his wife's illness and death, 107-111;
buries himself in studies, 112;
returns home, 113;
his letter about his wife, 113-115;
settles in Craigie House, 116;
description of Mrs. Craigie, 118-120;
interest in Craigie estate, 122, 123;
his "Hyperion," 124-134;
his letter to his wife's sister, 129, 130;
on "Twice-Told Tales," 130-132;
his desire for a national literature, 133;
his best piece of prose, 135, 136;
literary projects, 137;
letter about "Hyperion," 139, 140;
criticisms of, 141-143;
his relation with Bryant, 145, 146;
social side, 146, 147;
costume of, 147;
suggestions for poems, 149, 150;
college duties, 150-155;
asks for leave of absence, 155, 156;
sails for Europe, 157;
asks for further leave of absence, 157, 158;
the "Spanish Student," 162;
returns home, 162;
anti-slavery poems, 163-165;
abolitionists on, 166;
Irish abolitionist on, 167;
intimacy with Lowell, 169;
announces his engagement and marriage to Frances Appleton, 171, 172;
aided in "Poets and Poetry of Europe," 173;
in the class room, 176-179;
letters about college work, 179-183;
letter about elective system, 182, 183;
finds college work monotonous, 186, 187;
writes about his "Spanish Student," 188, 189;
his "Poets and Poetry of Europe," 189-191;
his fame, 192;
"Evangeline," 194, 195;
compared with Scandinavian poets, 196, 197;
"Kavanagh," 198-200;
resigns professorship, 202-207;
begins "Hiawatha," 208;
writes "The Courtship of Miles Standish," 210;
death of his wife, 211;
shorter poems, 213-218;
sails for Europe, 219;
speech by, 219, 220;
receives honorary degree at Cambridge, Eng., 220, 221;
English praise for, 221-223;
receives honorary degree at Oxford, 223;
arrives home, 223;
works on Dante translation, 225;
friendly criticism, 226, 227;
comparison of early with late translations, 229-231;
comparison with Norton's translation, 231, 232;
"Christus," 236-238, 242, 243;
"New England Tragedies," 239;
requests for autographs, 240, 275, 276;
"The Divine Tragedy," 244;
criticisms of "The Divine Tragedy," 245, 246;
commemorated in Westminster Abbey, 248-257;
his works essentially American, 258-260;
interested in local affairs, 260;
dislikes English criticism of our literature, 263, 264;
manner in which his poems came to him, 264, 265;
his alterations, 266, 267;
compared with Browning, 270;
relations with Whittier and Emerson, 271, 272;
on Browning, 272, 273;
on Tennyson, 273;
his table-talk, 273-275;
unpublished poems, 276;
descriptions of, 278, 279;
his works popular, 280;
Cardinal Wiseman on, 281;
resembles Turgenieff, 282;
home life, 282-285;
member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Spanish Academy, 288;
removal of "spreading chestnut-tree" and armchair made, 289, 290;
his speech at Cambridge anniversary, 290, 291;
his study, 291, 292;
as a man, 292, 293;
sickness, 293;
death, 294.
Longfellow, Mary S. P., 172;
schoolmate of Longfellow, 60;
becomes Longfellow's wife, 60;
description of, 61;
her books, 62-64;
begins housekeeping, 66;
her letter about the Round Hill School, 81, 82;
her letter about Longfellow's "Outre-Mer," 83;
her letters about their European trip, 88-106;
her illness and death, 107-111;
H. W. Longfellow's letter about, 113-115;
her journals destroyed, 170.
Longfellow, Rev. Samuel, 71, 91, 92, 106;
his memoir of his brother, cited, 30 note, 85 note, 99 note, 189 note,
191 note, 199 note, 207 note, 224 note;
quoted, 37, 38, 41-43, 48-52, 113, 124, 126, 141, 145, 147, 148, 165,
168, 191, 192, 202, 203, 219-222, 226, 242, 245, 246, 257, 263, 264,
266, 276.
Longfellow, Stephen, 11, 13, 14, 17, 97;
spelling of name, 11;
letters to, from H. W. L. about his profession, 38-43;
his reply, 40, 41;
Mary S. P. Longfellow's letter to, 98, 99.
Longfellow, Judge Stephen, appearance of, 13.
Longfellow, William, 12.
Longfellow, Zilpah (Wadsworth), 11, 87, 99;
description of, 15;
Longfellow writes to, 46, 47;
Mary S. P. Longfellow's letter to, about European trip, 88-97;
H. W. L.'s letter to, 97, 98.
Longfellow family, 60.
Longfellow Memorial Association, 121.
Louis the Sixteenth, 47.
"Lover's Seat," the, cited, 143 note.
Lowell, John A., 182.
Lowell, James R., 1, 6, 57, 59, 82, 146, 192, 197, 211, 223, 228, 248,
251, 271, 273, 285, 294;
intimacy with Longfellow, 168, 169;
on Longfellow's Dante translations, 227;
expresses gratitude for honor done to Longfellow, 251-255;
likes English ways, 260, 261;
Poe's influence on, 268;
his literary alterations, 269.
Lowell, Miss Sally, 121.
Lucerne, 8.
Lugano, 224.
Lundy, Benjamin, his "Genius of Universal Emancipation," mentioned, 163.
Lunt, George, 165.
Lyly, John, 55.
McHenry, Dr. James, praises Longfellow, 22.
McLane, Mr., 118.
Madrid, 50.
Maine, 11, 17, 208;
Cumberland County, 220.
Mäler River, the, 93.
Malherbe, Francis de, 191.
Marienberg, 157, 161, 170.
Marseilles, 3, 94.
Marshall, Emily, 19.
Marshall, Chief Justice John, 6.
Massachusetts, 186;
Legislature, 11.
Mather, Cotton, 138, 239;
his "Magnalia," mentioned, 149.
Matsys, Quintin, 161.
Mayence, 162.
Mayflower (ship), 13.
Medici, Cosmo de, 164.
Mellen, Mr., 140.
Mellen, Judge, 17.
Mellen, Frederic, 17.
Mellen, Grenville, 23.
Menzel, Charles Adolphus, his "History of German Literature," mentioned,
112.
Mexico, 263.
Middleton, Thomas, 188.
Milton, John, 268.
Mittermaier, Karl J. A., 112.
Molière, Jean B. P. de, 121, 176.
Montalvan, John P. de, 188.
Monti, Prof. Luigi, 215.
Moore, Thomas, 8, 62.
More, Hannah, 15, 121.
Morris, William, 6.
Morton, Eng., 219.
Motley, John L., 287.
Mt. Vernon, position similar to Craigie House, 116.
Mullins, Priscilla, 146.
Mussey, Dr., 83.
Nahant, Mass., 187, 205, 244.
Naples, 53, 223.
New England, 14, 36, 47, 78, 116, 131, 199;
Longfellow's plan of sketches about, 51;
traditions of, 130;
fugitive slave agitation in, 186.
"New England Magazine," 67 and note, 68, 69 note.
New York City, 23, 45, 69, 70, 140, 149, 164, 188, 219.
New York, 149.
New York University, 6.
"New York Independent," the, 5 note.
"New York Review," the, 140.
Newburyport, Mass., 102.
Ney, Marshal, 47.
Niagara, 264.
Niccolini, 54.
Nichols, Rev. Dr. Ichabod, 91.
Nimmo, William P., 8.
"North American Review," the, mentioned, 29, 87, 134, 137, 258;
quoted, 70, 71, 130-132, 144, 145, 200;
cited, 126 note;
Longfellow contributes to, 58, 75-77;
criticism of Longfellow in, 70.
Northampton, Mass., 81, 82.
Norton, Hon. Mrs., 195.
Norton, Prof. Andrews, 109, 192.
Norton, Prof. Charles E., 192;
on Longfellow's Dante translation, 227;
his translation compared with Longfellow's, 231, 232.
Nuremberg, 8.
Oehlenschlaeger, Adam G., compared with Longfellow, 196, 197.
Ohio, 275.
Ojibway chief, 208;
Indians enact "Hiawatha," 209.
Orléans, 48.
Ossian, 15.
Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, 138, 260;
criticises Longfellow, 52, 163.
"Our Native Writers," Longfellow's oration, 21, 22;
quoted, 30-36.
"Outre-Mer," 55, 67, 71, 73, 119, 121, 124, 193;
comparison of, with Irving's "Sketch Book," 69, 70;
Mrs. Longfellow's letter about, 83.
Oxford, Eng., 223, 288.
Packard, Prof. Alpheus, 61.
Paris, 46-48, 63, 158, 161, 223.
Parker, Theodore, 285.
Parsons, Theophilus, 23, 27.
Parsons, Thomas W., 209, 214, 215.
Paul, Jean, 199, 289.
Payne, John, 131.
Peabody, Rev. O. W. B., 70.
Percival, James Gates, 19, 23, 27, 145.
Pfizer, Ludwig, his "Junggesell," mentioned, 149.
Philadelphia, Pa., 22, 51, 132, 164, 166, 192, 193, 264.
Phillips, Wendell, 285.
Pierce, Mrs. Anne (Longfellow), 91, 92, 100.
Pierce, George W., 81, 91, 99, 112.
Pierpont, Rev. John, 145.
Platen, Count von, 191.
Pliny, 54.
Plymouth, Mass., 12.
Poe, Edgar A., 6, 10, 142-144, 168, 259, 267, 269, 276;
admiration of Longfellow, 141;
influence of, 268.
Pope, Alexander, 40.
Portland, Me., 11, 13, 14, 19, 57, 60, 61, 87, 98, 106, 172, 189.
Portland Academy, 15-17.
"Portland Gazette," the, 22.
Potomac River, 116.
Potter, Anne (Storer), 60.
Potter, Hon. Barrett, 60, 63;
Longfellow's letter to, about his wife's death, 107-111.
Potter, Eliza A., 109-111;
Longfellow's letter to, 113-115;
Longfellow's letter to, announcing his engagement, 172;
Frances Appleton's letter to, 174, 175.
Potter, Margaret. _See_ Thacher, Mrs. Peter.
Potter, Mary Storer. _See_ Longfellow, Mary S. P.
Pratt, Dexter, 289.
Prescott, William H., 146, 161;
on Longfellow's poems, 149.
Prothero, Canon, presides at Longfellow commemoration in Westminster
Abbey, 249;
accepts bust, 255.
Pulaski, Casimir, Count, 27.
Pulszky, Madame, her "White, Red, and Black," cited, 173 note.
Pushmataha, 79.
Quincy, Edmund, 285.
Quincy, Josiah, 122, 178;
his letter to Longfellow offering professorship, 84, 85;
Longfellow's letters to, 85-87, 155, 157, 158;
his letter to Longfellow about absence, 159, 160.
Quincy, Mrs. Josiah, 133, 158.
Quincy, Miss, 158.
Racine, Jean, 65, 176.
Raleigh, Va., 82.
Raynes, Capt., 131.
Reboul, of Nîmes, 191.
Reed, E. J., 224.
Revolution, American, the, 12, 117.
Rhine River, 131, 170, 193.
Richter, Jean Paul, 64, 112, 113, 127.
Riddle, George, 290.
Riedesel, Baroness, 117.
Robert College, 3.
Robinson, Rowland, 198.
Rolfe, Prof. William J., 8;
on Longfellow, 287, 288.
Rome, 132, 148, 215, 223.
Rosendale, 94.
Rossetti, Dante G., 190.
Rotterdam, 107, 111.
Round Hill School, 81.
Routledge, Mr., 245.
Rubens, Peter P., 161.
Ruskin, John, 238, 262, 286;
his "Modern Painters," quoted, 237.
Russia, 43.
Russia, steamer, 219.
Sachs, Hans, 234.
Sacobezon, an Indian chief, 207.
Sailly, Madame de, 47.
St. Gothard Pass, 223.
Salem, Mass., 240.
Sannazaro, J., 54.
Savannah, Ga., 119.
Scherb, Emmanuel V., 239.
Schlosser, Friedrich Christoph, 112.
"Schoolmaster," the, 67, 68.
Scott, Sir Walter, 7, 265.
Scudder, Horace E., 24, 73, 243;
his "Longfellow and his Art," mentioned, 53;
his "Men and Letters," cited, 54 note;
quoted, 261;
his "Lowell," cited, 168 note;
on Longfellow, 269.
Sebago Pond, 51.
Sévigné, Madame de, 121.
Shakespeare, William, 2, 5, 8, 32, 66.
Shelley, Percy B., 9, 262, 280.
Shepley, Rev. David, 19.
Sidney, Sir Philip, 77;
his "Defence of Poesy," mentioned, 75.
Skinner, Mrs., 88.
Solis, Anthony de, 188.
Southey, Robert, 7, 46.
Spain, 50, 55, 66, 83.
Sparks, Jared, 118, 178;
letter from, to Longfellow, 29, 30.
"Spectator," the London, 69.
Stackelberg, Baron, 95.
Staël, Madame de, 121.
Stephenson, Samuel, 14.
Stettin, 98.
Stockoe, Mr., 95.
Stockoe, Mrs., 95.
Stockholm, 90, 92, 96, 97, 102, 103, 108.
Storer, Robert, 101.
Story, Judge Joseph, 11, 86.
Strasburg, 8.
Strasburg Cathedral, 238.
Sudbury, Mass., 214, 215.
Sumner, Charles, 57, 80, 146, 147, 162, 164, 173, 206, 216, 271, 272,
284, 289, 292, 294;
elected to U. S. Senate, 186;
on "Evangeline," 195;
struck down in Senate, 240.
Sweden, 87, 94, 101, 105, 135;
Longfellow's opinion of, 97.
Swinburne, A. C., 6, 216, 218.
Switzerland, 8, 113, 171, 223, 263.
Symons, Capt., 92.
Talleyrand, Prince, 118.
Tasso, Torquato, 54.
Taylor, Bayard, 143, 209.
Taylor, Miss Emily, 62.
Taylor, Thomas, 131.
Tecumseh, 77.
Tegner, Esaias, 196;
Longfellow's review of his "Frithiof's Saga," 134.
Tennyson, Alfred, 3, 6, 9, 139, 216-218, 270;
his remark about short poems, 268;
his "Life," quoted, 268;
description of, 282.
Thacher, Mrs. Peter, 109, 111;
Longfellow's letters to, 129, 130, 148, 169-171.
Thierry, Amédée S. D., 193.
Thomson, James, 8.
Thoreau, Henry D., 133, 271, 285;
his definition of poetry, 277.
Thorp, John G., 215.
Ticknor, Prof. George, 57, 71, 75, 85, 86, 112, 153;
Longfellow dines with, 45, 46;
resigns from Harvard College, 84;
attracted by Longfellow's translations, 87;
elective system tried by, 178.
"Token," the, 72-74.
Tolstoi, Count, 197.
Tours, 48.
Treadwell, Prof. Daniel, 214.
Tripoli, 14.
Trumbull, John, 23.
Turgenieff, Ivan S., resembled Longfellow in looks, 282.
Tyrol, the, 113.
Uhland, Johann L., 161, 219;
his "Das Glück von Edenhall," mentioned, 149.
United States, 116, 240, 250, 251, 255;
Sumner elected to Senate of, 186.
University Hall, Cambridge, 176.
Upsala, University of, 97.
Van Winkle, C. S., 69.
Vassall, Col. John, 118.
Venice, 223, 286.
Vere, Aubrey de, 141.
Vere, Schele de, 204.
Vevey, 241.
Victoria, Queen, 118, 221.
Virgil, 54, 194.
Virginia, 81, 271.
Vogelwied, Walter von der, 238, 287.
"Voices of the Night," 138, 177, 213, 228, 260;
commenced, 137;
success of, 141;
publication of, 145.
Voltaire, Francis M. A. de, 112, 120, 121.
Wadsworth, Christopher, 12.
Wadsworth, Elizabeth B., 12.
Wadsworth, Henry, 14.
Wadsworth, Miss Lucia, 97, 99;
Mary S. P. Longfellow's letter to, 100-106.
Wadsworth, Gen. Peleg, 12, 18;
appearance of, 13.
Wadsworth, Zilpah. _See_ Longfellow, Zilpah W.
Wadsworth family, 13.
Wales, Prince of, 221.
Wales, Henry W., 215.
Walker, Rev. James, 178, 203;
Longfellow's letters to, 204-206.
Ward, Samuel, 149, 164, 188.
Wardell, John, 131.
Washington, George, 6, 292;
headquarters at Craigie House, 116, 117.
Washington, Martha, 117.
Washington, D. C., 79.
Webb, Richard D., criticises Longfellow's anti-slavery poems, 167.
Webster, Daniel, 6.
Weimar, 289.
Weld, Miss Emeline, describes Mrs. Longfellow, 64.
Wells, George W., Longfellow writes to, 37.
Wendell, Prof. Barrett, 142;
his "Literary History of America," cited, 142 note.
Wesselhoeft, Dr. Robert, 161.
West Point, N. Y., 18.
Westminster Abbey, service of commemoration for Longfellow at, 248-257.
Weston, Miss Anne W., 167.
Weston MSS., cited, 167 note.
White Mountains, 51, 132.
Whitman, Walt, 6, 10, 276.
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1, 6, 68, 134, 168, 258, 265, 267, 285, 294;
thanks Longfellow for his anti-slavery poems, 167;
his literary position, 259;
relations with Longfellow, 271.
Wijk, Mr., 101-103.
Wijk, Mrs., 102, 103.
Wilcox, Carlos, 145.
Wilde, Oscar, 292.
Wilkins, Mary, 198.
Willis, Nathaniel P., 8, 19, 89, 90, 247.
Windsor Castle, 221.
Winter, William, on Longfellow's unpublished poems, 276.
Winthrop, R. C., 222.
Wiseman, Cardinal, on Longfellow, 281.
Worcester, Joseph E., 121.
Worcester, Noah, 63, 64.
Worcester, Mass., 118 note.
Wordsworth, William, 7-10, 80, 266.
York Cathedral, 224.
Yorkshire County, Eng., 11.
Zedlitz, Joseph C., 161.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
List of changes from the printed edition (in parentheses the original
text):
p. 47: "different" for "diferent" (so diferent from the town)
p. 68: "Gongora" for "Gorgora" (Luis de Gorgora)
p. 79: closing quote missing in the original (of the wood. More
attention)
p. 93: period missing in the original (Baron S---- She is)
p. 94: period missing in the original (ottomans, &c--The chandeliers)
p. 182: spurious period in the original (and Greek. I have)
p. 194: double quotes in the original (to select "Evangeline" as the)
p. 195: "de" for "Le" (Collège Le France)
p. 240: "Wenlock" for "Wenlook" (Wenlook Christison)
p. 266: opening quote missing in the original (The buried treasures)
p. 302: day "14" missing in the original (m. (1) Sept., 1831)
p. 304: comma missing in the original (North Am. Rev. 47)
p. 308: "Student" for "Studente" (Der Spanische Studente)
p. 311: "en" for "in" (J. J. L. ten Kate in A. Bechger's Longfellow)
p. 311: "T." for "J." (J. W. H.)
p. 312: "H." for "Sd." (ved Sd. C. Knutsen)
p. 314: "Traduzido" for "Traducido" (Traducido por Miguel Street)
p. 314: "Nueva" for "Neuva" (Neuva York)
p. 314: "Ewangelina" for "Evangelina", "Przelozona" for "Przelózona",
and "Polski" for "Poliski" (Evangelina. Przelózona na jezyk Poliski
przez.)
p. 315: "Jezierski" for "Jerzierski" (F. Jerzierski)
p. 315: "Ewangelina" for "Evangelina"
p. 315: "Jezierski" for "Jerzierski" (Felix Jerzierski)
p. 315: "Felix Jezierski" for "Feliksa Jerzierskiego"
p. 333: end period missing in the original (Bosworth, Dr., 111)
p. 335: entry "Frazer, Mr." between "Forster, John" and "France" in the
original
p. 335: entry "Gongora, Luis de" between "Gorges, Thomas" and
"Gothenburg" in the original (p. 336)
p. 338: "local" for "loal" (interested in loal affairs)
p. 339: ";" for "," at end of sub-entry (260, 261,)
Other possible mistakes in the original text, not corrected in this
edition:
p. 138: "Der Armer Heinrich" instead of the correct "Der Arme Heinrich".
Possibly written incorrectly by Longfellow himself.
p. 195 (and index): "King of the Belgiums", instead of the correct title
"King of the Belgians". It could be intentional or a common mistake.